25 NOVEMBER 1854, Page 10

Pazumsze THEATRICALS.

Two famous ladies have lately been brought upon the French stage. 'One is Rosamunda, the terrible wife of the Lombard King Alboin, who, as Paul the Deacon tells us, avenged the insult to her father's skull by the murder of her husband, and who now, personated •by Mademoiselle Rachel, appears as the heroine of a one-act tragedy, written by M. La- tour de St. Yburs, produced at the Franeais, and entitled Rosamonde. The other lady is the still more celebrated Madame de Maintenon, who figures at the Porte St. Martin as the protectress of her own illegitimate son, the 'Comte de Lavernie, who gives `the piece its title. M. Niaquet is the au- thor of this-semi-historical drama, and Madame -Guyon is the representa- tive of the royal favourite.